{"id":70452,"date":"2019-08-09T02:10:33","date_gmt":"2019-08-09T06:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=70452"},"modified":"2019-08-09T02:10:33","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T06:10:33","slug":"hedge-funds-turn-most-bearish-since-2016-hone-long-stock-bets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2019\/hedge-funds-turn-most-bearish-since-2016-hone-long-stock-bets.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds Turn Most Bearish Since 2016, Hone Long Stock Bets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) As stocks whipsawed over the past week, hedge funds took a stance that\u2019s hard to frame as bullish, intensifying bets against the market and limited long positions to a shrinking group of companies. The ratio of hedge funds\u2019 long to short positions, known as net leverage, sank to the lowest level since February 2016, data compiled by Morgan Stanley\u2019s prime brokerage unit showed. At the same time, gross leverage, a gauge of risk appetite that adds up both long and short positions, remained above the 75th percentile since 2010.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2019-08-07\/hedge-funds-turn-most-bearish-since-2016-hone-long-stock-bets\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) As stocks whipsawed over the past week, hedge funds took a stance that\u2019s hard to frame as bullish, intensifying bets against the market and limited long positions to a shrinking group of companies. The ratio of hedge funds\u2019 long [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70453,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70452\/revisions\/70453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}